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<h1>Overview</h1>
Welcome to Velocityme. We hope that this online documentation will help
you to get started with using the system.<br>
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The first thing which you see when you run the client application will
be the login panel which should be centred on your screen and look like
the figure below:<br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="login.gif" title=""
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Enter your username and password then press "Login" to enter the
system. If all goes well then you should be presented with the
following window:<br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="startup.gif" title=""
 alt="Startup Window" style="width: 619px; height: 517px;"><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;">A number of important things can be seen
here and we will go through them briefly:<br>
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  <li>At the top of the window is the main menu.</li>
  <li>Just below it is the toolbar. The toolbar is used for creating 
new entities in the tree. Note that all the buttons will apply to the 
currently selected node (more on this in the next point). Note also that 
buttons will only be enabled when you have permission to perform the 
specified action.<br>
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  <li>Navigation of the tree is displayed in two separate panels. This 
first which is just below the toolbar shows the current node and its
ancestors, or the path from the root to the current node. Below this on
the left is another panel which shows the children of the current node.
Navigate down the tree using the child panel and up the tree using the
ancestor panel. An example of selecting the Root node is displayed in the 
next figure.</li>
  <li>This brings us to the right panel which is where you will do most
of your work. It is the tabbed panel which is used to show several 
different aspects of the currently selected node. Note that the toolbar
button actions will always refer to the node that is visible in the main
panel.</li>
  <li>The status bar at the bottom of the window tells you exactly
which person is currently logged in as which user. The syntax of the
display (which is also used in Change Logs) is first the person's name,
followed by a colon and then the username.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="root.gif" title=""
 alt="Root node" style="width: 619px; height: 517px;"><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;">At this point you should go and read <a
 href="../gettingstarted/Getting_Started.html">Getting Started</a> to
figure out how to customize Velocityme for you own particular
environment.<br>
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